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[Commlist] New Book Publication - The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale

Wed Dec 09 16:20:10 GMT 2020



Karen McNally is pleased to announce the publication of The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale with Wallflower Press, an imprint of Columbia University Press.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-stardom-film/9780231184014


Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. In the first book to focus exclusively on these modern fairy tales, Karen McNally traces the history of this film and television genre from fictional narratives to biopics and from the silent to the contemporary era. Discovering less familiar films, revisiting classics like A Star is Born (1937 and 1954), and considering contemporary examples such as Judy (2019), the book reveals how the genre shapes Hollywood stardom as it takes a central place in the American imagination.

“The Stardom Film is a lively and insightful introductory account of this cycle from its early days to the present. In following that history, McNally offers original and well-researched readings of familiar and rarely studied works. Recommended reading for anyone interested in stardom and the many complex ways Hollywood has treated it on film.”—Steven Cohan, author of Hollywood by Hollywood

“The Stardom Film is an engaging, lucid, and comprehensive study of a narrative mode that continues to exert fascination. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the tropes by which celebrity and stardom remain intertwined with our social and professional identities.”—Adrienne McLean, author of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom


Dr Karen McNally is senior lecturer in film and television studies at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity (2008), editor of Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films (2011), and coeditor of The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and American Television (2019).

The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of film studies, specifically designed for building an individually styled library for all students and enthusiasts of cinema and popular culture.

978-0-231-18401-4 paper
978-0-23185114-5 e-book

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